bitonti Posted August 23, 2013 Share Posted August 23, 2013 Toon's son is in the NFL. Chrebet tweets about the league all the time. What's your point? its one thing to say "people" have a choice it's another to put a face and a name on the problem. If the league had today's concussion guidelines back then, maybe these guys wouldn't have had such terrible ends to their careers. (and likely early dementia CTE) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt39 Posted August 23, 2013 Author Share Posted August 23, 2013 its one thing to say "people" have a choice it's another to put a face and a name on the problem. If the league had today's concussion guidelines back then, maybe these guys wouldn't have had such terrible ends to their careers. (and likely early dementia CTE) And yet, if Chrebet were 15 years younger he'd be putting a helmet on and telling th doctors to get lost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flgreen Posted August 23, 2013 Share Posted August 23, 2013 And yet, if Chrebet were 15 years younger he'd be putting a helmet on and telling th doctors to get lost. Bingo These guys know that running at one another full speed and crashing their bodies is not a good thing physically, most of them would do it all over again. These law suits are BS. Something for PC's to complain about Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larz Posted August 23, 2013 Share Posted August 23, 2013 one of the games last night had a really lame call on a totally accidental and minor helmet to helmet contact on a WR its going to be a rough first few weeks as they figure this out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt39 Posted August 23, 2013 Author Share Posted August 23, 2013 one of the games last night had a really lame call on a totally accidental and minor helmet to helmet contact on a WR its going to be a rough first few weeks as they figure this out And this is the problem. We are at the stage now where the league is attempting to continue by half assing a violent, collision sport. There's no in between. You can't regulate how players who are running 4.3's tackle. All that does is make the sport more dangerous. You can't not practice in pads all week then go full tilt on Sundays. The NFL is trending downward. Deadspin is just doing gods work. Barf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SayNoToDMC Posted August 23, 2013 Share Posted August 23, 2013 its one thing to say "people" have a choice it's another to put a face and a name on the problem. If the league had today's concussion guidelines back then, maybe these guys wouldn't have had such terrible ends to their careers. (and likely early dementia CTE) Would we be talking about Wayne Chrebet's career if things where like this then? These are millionaire, professional athletes, you don't need to protect them from themselves. They're adults, shedding some light on the issue is great but adults make their own decisions. They don't have it bad compared to normal people and as an adult if they don't like it they can try and go out to find work someplace else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T0mShane Posted August 23, 2013 Share Posted August 23, 2013 And this is the problem. We are at the stage now where the league is attempting to continue by half assing a violent, collision sport. There's no in between. You can't regulate how players who are running 4.3's tackle. All that does is make the sport more dangerous. You can't not practice in pads all week then go full tilt on Sundays. The NFL is trending downward. Deadspin is just doing gods work. Barf. If the NFL was going down, Vegas would tell you first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt39 Posted August 23, 2013 Author Share Posted August 23, 2013 If the NFL was going down, Vegas would tell you first. That's a hell of a point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetsjetsjetss Posted August 23, 2013 Share Posted August 23, 2013 With the size and speed of the players only increasing....honestly there's no way to prevent head injuries without taking the helmets away. This PBS doc is going to look real bad for causal fans/people who dont follow the sport. You and I both know how dangerous football is and always has been. when they start testing for PEDS itll help some ex played thought 50% of players use it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larz Posted August 24, 2013 Share Posted August 24, 2013 And this is the problem. We are at the stage now where the league is attempting to continue by half assing a violent, collision sport. There's no in between. You can't regulate how players who are running 4.3's tackle. All that does is make the sport more dangerous. You can't not practice in pads all week then go full tilt on Sundays. The NFL is trending downward. Deadspin is just doing gods work. Barf. gruden said the NFL was going to have a "zero tolerance" to helmet to helmet hits on QB's and WR's. which is really stupid considering what LB's and RB's go through every game. so who will be the first WR to "take one for the team" and lean into a hit late in the 4th Q in FG range ? bet its amendola Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugg Posted August 24, 2013 Share Posted August 24, 2013 the way football will die won't start with the pros. It will start at the pee wee and high school levels, with less people willing to risk their childrens' heads for free. Everyone focuses on the salaries the pros make but these guys come from somewhere. How about the cost of insuring a high school football team? It eventually will be a regional/economically depressed sport where only the poor or immigrant risk their heads for free. The pros will be the last to go. the feeder pipelines will be hit first. This is only one family in Brooklyn all going to Catholic schools. One thing I've noticed from the time I and my brothers were in high school until my sons started going to high school the last decade or so; there were no lacrosse nor ice hockey and barely any rugby back then. And now almost every Catholic school has all 3. Where teams once had a JV and varisty baseball, they know have freshman team also and even multiple freshman teams. Basketball was always big and still is , but think those other sports are taking kids away form football. And the schedules of most of those sports preclude msot kids from playiing more than one or 2 sports. Nobody is playiing more than 2, so kids are picking specialization earlier than ever, At the same time schools cannot field freshman football teams for lack of kids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxman Posted August 24, 2013 Share Posted August 24, 2013 Can someone explain to me what is going on here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kay_gee Posted August 24, 2013 Share Posted August 24, 2013 Can someone explain to me what is going on here? anal. oh wait, that's another thread. a discussion about the future (or lack there of) of football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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